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Man fighting with a dragon, armed with a bow

Lost Art-ID
619364
Artist / Creator
Joseph Parrocel
Title
Man fighting with a dragon, armed with a bow
Object type
Drawing
Group of reported objects
Graphic
Material / Technique
Paper ; Ink brown / drawn
Measures
Maße Ausschnitt Passepartout, Passepartout: 56,5 cm x 42,2 cm
Height
36.40 cm
Width
22.80 cm
Inventory number
GS Mappe 54,20; Inventarnummer S 1965/1190,20
Description
Battle scene, young naked and muscular man with cloak (blowing in the wind, inflating at the back) dynamically points his bow downwards at a dragon/sea monster whose head emerges from a lake, man reaches behind him with his right hand to fetch arrow and string it into the bow
Provenance
Auction at Rudolph Lepke's auction house, Berlin, on 14 March 1905, sale to "Greve"; probably during the war, at the latest since 9 July 1945 until today Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold, initially handed over in trust by the British Military Government Detmold, since 20 July 1945 officially handed over for safekeeping.
Published since
Contact

Lippische Landesbibliothek / Theologische Bibliothek und Mediothek
Hornsche Str. 41
32756 Detmold
Germany

Phone
05231 92660-36
Homepage
http://www.llb-detmold.de
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